1. Pando.com - Memo to Stripe: Winning the hearts of Valley startups is not winning payments.

Earlier this week, news broke that payments company Stripe raised an $80 million Series C from Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Founders Fund (Disclosure: Founders Fund is an investor in PandoDaily). This brings the startup’s total funding to $120 million, and its valuation to $1.75 billion, more than double what competitor Braintree sold to PayPal for in September. It’s big news, and the media coverage trumpeted the “lofty” funding as proof of Stripe’s “explosion of growth.”

The Journal and Dow Jones VentureSource are tracking companies that are valued at $1 billion or more by venture-capital firms. The club is becoming less exclusive as venture capitalists funnel large sums of capital in the best startups. Today there are more than 30 such companies in the U.S., Europe and China. Click on the names below for company profiles, or sort by categories such as region, amount raised and valuation. (Published January 2014).

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